Junior Wells – It's My Life, Baby
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Junior Wells, harmonica, vocals [click here to see more products featuring Junior Wells]
Buddy Guy, guitar [click here to see more products featuring Buddy Guy]
Bass – Leroy Stewart
Design – Jules Halfant
Drums – Freddy Below (A1-2, B2, B4-5)
Drums – Little Al (A3 to B1, B3, B6)
Rhythm Guitar – Walter Beasley (A3 to B1, B3, B6)
1LP, standard sleeve
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio (A3 to B1, B3, B6) & Live (A1-2, B2, B4-5)
Record Press : GZ Media
Label : VMP - Vinyl Me Please Classics series
Original Label : Vanguard
Recorded live at Pepper's Lounge on the South Side, Chicago (A1-2, B2, B4-5)
Produced by Samuel Charters
Lacquer cut by Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound
Photography by Joel Brodsky
Sleeve Notes by Samuel Charters
Originally released in 1966
Reissued in 2024
Tracks:
Side A
- It's My Life, Baby
- It's So Hard To Be Lonely
- Country Girl
- You Lied To Me
- Stormy Monday Blues
- Shake It Baby
Side B
- Checking On My Baby
- Early In The Morning
- Stomach Ache
- Look How Baby
- Slow, Slow
- Everything Is Going To Be Alight
Review :
« Although It's My Life, Baby! was decent mid-'60s electric Chicago blues, coming so soon after Junior Wells' 1965 classic Hoodoo Man Blues -- one of the greatest blues LPs ever -- it was something of a disappointment. Wells' chief right-hand man for Hoodoo Man Blues, guitarist Buddy Guy, was still on board for these recordings, but the band arrangements weren't quite as tight. More crucially, the material wasn't as good or innovative, giving far more weight to slow blues with standard progressions, and relatively little attention to the funk-soul-Latin influences that had supplied several of Hoodoo Man Blues' finest moments. Finally, the decision to mix studio recordings with live tracks (recorded at Pepper's Lounge in Chicago) could be questioned, as it lent the record an inconsistency, particularly as different bands were used live and in the studio. Taken on its own terms, however, it's certainly respectable, at times revving up the energy for an infectious bounce. "Country Girl," for instance, stands in peppy contrast to the relatively sleepy slow tunes; "Shake It Baby" revives some of the soul feeling of the Hoodoo Man Blues sessions; and "(I Got A) Stomach Ache" is funky in a silly but fun way. » AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3.5 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.71 / 5